Since Midway Games no longer had an NFL license, Blitz: The League focuses on a fictional league consisting of 18 teams known simply as "The League", whose history is written as a tongue-in-cheek parallel of the NFL's, with the league consisting of three divisions, using a system of promotion and relegation. The game also brings back the hard-hitting and violent gameplay of earlier Blitz games. Former NFL linebacker Lawrence Taylor voices Quentin Sands, captain of the New York Nightmare. In the next iteration released in 2006, former NFL linebacker Bill Romanowski voices Bruno Battaglia, the captain of the Baltimore Bearcats.
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Midway's Blitz series of football games has had its ups and downs--often rather extreme ups and downs. But with the debut of Blitz: The League late last year, Midway proved that it still knew how to make a fast, violent, completely over-the-top game of football. By forgoing the NFL license in favor of a fake football league, Midway had free rein to do all the dirty stuff that the NFL won't talk about--namely, juicing players, gambling addictions, off-the-field trysts with cheerleaders, and hilariously horrible injuries. It was a great game of football that didn't take itself the least bit seriously, and now, one year later, Blitz has made its Xbox 360 debut. However, this isn't a sequel to Blitz: The League. It's actually Blitz: The League. Seemingly ported from the Xbox version of the game, this new version of Blitz sports an additional cover athlete in tight-end-punching ex-linebacker and all around psychopath Bill Romanowski, and a few minor graphical upgrades. But beyond that, this is the same game you already played a year ago, and it's not at a discounted price, either.
Blitz: The League contains no franchise mode to speak of. Instead, you get the campaign mode, a 30-game-plus storyline telling the story of one team's rise from the dregs of the game's fictional league to the top. You begin the mode by creating a team of your own, complete with city name, uniform style, and logo. Then you get to choose a rookie offensive player and a veteran defensive player. These are the two players that will come under the most focus during the storyline. The story itself was apparently penned by some of the writers from ESPN's now-defunct gridiron soap opera Playmakers, and it shows. After a particularly humiliating defeat against Quentin Sands (voiced to perfection by the dirtiest player in the game: Lawrence Taylor) and his New York Nightmare, your team is sent to Division 3. The league in this story is broken up into three divisions, with the top dogs competing in Division 1 and the bargain-basement, Houston Texans-like squads rounding out the bottom of the barrel in Division 3. The game never explains how this whole thing works, beyond the fact that you need to win the championship in each division to move up.
There are 10 Leagues available; numbers 1 through 9, and, at the very top, Legend League. Players progress through leagues by earning Trophies, which you gain (or lose) depending on your performance in battles. Trophies (and therefore Leagues) are reset every season; this happens on the first day of the month. Since the length of a season is determined by month, it makes some seasons (for example, Seasons 3 and 15) shorter, since they occurred during February. This meant that, during those seasons, players had 2-3 days fewer than average to play through.
At the end of a season, players in leagues's trophies will be reset to a lower league; e.g, a player ends his season in league 5. The next season his trophies will be reset to league 3, with 200 trophies. Players in Legend League's trophies will be reset to 7000 and league 9. The table below lists the transitions of trophies through seasons.
Many gamers have fond memories of gathering around a television or arcade cabinet and playing NFL Blitz with a group of friends. The series became a sensation when it first released in 1997, with its exaggerated violence and fast-paced gameplay putting it in a league of its own. However, NFL Blitz evolved into a much more mature title during the mid-2000s. Blitz: The League took the beloved franchise and turned it into a hyper-violent blood sport.
Blitz: The League's ultra-violent nature isn't the only thing that makes the game so unique. It also relies on storytelling and dives into the backgrounds of each team and its players. The first game's story follows an up-and-coming football team as they try convincing the mayor to build them a new stadium. The second game added even more depth by following a rookie player named Franchise as he tries to leave his mark on the league. Both stories are pretty dark and jump into the grittier aspects of certain player's lives, dealing with the characters' personal issues and the seedier side of professional sports.
The year is 2004, and Midway Games has a problem. Last year's edition of their popular NFL Blitz series, NFL Blitz PRO, was the most toned-down, realistic Blitz yet thanks to National Football League lobbyists forcing them to dial back the games' signature violence, and the result was a flop, both commercially and critically. To make things worse, their rivals over at Electronic Arts just signed an exclusive license with the NFL, making Madden NFL (and NFL Street, until that died out a few years later) the only game in town as far as American Football video games went. So now, Midway was faced with a choice: take a premature axe to their iconic football series...or go their own way, start their own league, and create a version of football so brutal that it made the NFL's old complaints look absurd.
Skull-smashing action delivers a punch in more ways than one. Players can create and develop the greatest teams in the League's history using a wealth of customizable options in an attempt to take their squads to the very top of the league standings. An unleash meter in the game also allows players to slow down play and pull off drastic moves, break free of tackles and evade opponent players. This hardcore adrenaline spectacular is playable in single and multiplayer modes, as well as via the Xbox Live online game service. Awesome!
CHICAGO, AUGUST 6, 2008 Midway Games Inc. (NYSE:MWY), a leading interactive entertainment industry publisher anddeveloper, today announced that top talent including, FrankCaliendo, host of Frank TV and known for his impressions oflegendary football broadcaster John Madden, President George W.Bush and Al Pacino, and Hollywood A-lister and former host of LastComic Standing, Jay Mohr, have been recruited to join LawrenceTaylor in the upcoming release of Blitz: The League II. Thevoice talent and comedic skills of both Caliendo and Mohr will helpbring to life the game's fictional football league that has beencreated by Peter Egan, scriptwriter for ESPN's edgy "Playmakers"series.
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